Analysis Of The Rose That Grew From The Concrete

After every time, I read “The Rose That Grew from the Concrete” by Tupac Shakur, my personal takeaway from the poem is the importance of perseverance. To me, it seems that in this poem it alludes to hard work and proving any doubters wrong in the process and this can be seen by “Proving nature’s law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet” (3-4). One literary element that was evident in the poem was symbols. One symbol is clear in the very opening line “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” (1-2) this
Gosbin 2 can symbolize the author’s childhood growing up in the ghetto, but eventually growing through that tough concrete in order to become the rose. Tupac Shakur, a superstar in the late 1990’s made his